To the right worshipful Iohn Fowke, alderman of the ward of Farrington within, to the deputy, Common-counsell, and to the rest of the inhabitants of the aforesaid ward. The humble petition of Joseph Hunscot citizen and stationer of London. Hunscot, Joseph. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A86895 of text R210732 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.11[107]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A86895 Wing H3729 Thomason 669.f.11[107] ESTC R210732 99869495 99869495 162759 2240955784

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A86895) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162759) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f11[107]) To the right worshipful Iohn Fowke, alderman of the ward of Farrington within, to the deputy, Common-counsell, and to the rest of the inhabitants of the aforesaid ward. The humble petition of Joseph Hunscot citizen and stationer of London. Hunscot, Joseph. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1647] Imprint from Wing. Petitioning for the position of beadle in the ward of Farrington. Annotation on Thomason copy: "December 15. 1647". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Hunscot, Joseph -- Early works to 1800. Fowke, John, d. 1662 -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A86895 R210732 (Thomason 669.f.11[107]). civilwar no To the right worshipful Iohn Fowke, alderman of the ward of Farrington within, to the deputy, Common-counsell, and to the rest of the inhabi Hunscot, Joseph. 1647 1 310 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Iohn Fowke , Alderman of the Ward of FARRINGTON within , To the Deputy , Common-counsell , and to the rest of the Inhabitants of the aforesaid Ward . The humble Petition of Joseph Hunscot Citizen and Stationer of LONDON : Humbly sheweth ,

WHereas by the late death of Thomas Nichols , the Beadles place of the Ward aforesaid is become void , and your Petitioner having lived these forty yeers and upwards in the said Ward , and borne all Offices in his Parish where he lived , and hath from time to time manifested his good affection to the service of the Parliament , not only in paying of Taxes and Assesments imposed on him , but before did voluntarily carry in a horse , monies , and in person with his sonne and three servants actually served the Parliament , to the losse both of the benefit of his servants times , and also of his trade ; And since hath printed severall Books by the direction of the Parliament , which amounts to a good value , for all which he hath had no satisfaction . The premises considered ,

Your Petitioner humbly prayes your Worships and the rest of the said Ward , to grant him your favours and furtherance to be the Beadle for the Ward in the room of the said Mr. Nichols deceased ; in discharge whereof he promises all faithfulnesse and diligence both to your Worships and the Ward ; And as in duty bound ,

Your Petitioner shall ever pray , &c.

And your Petitioner will undertake to discharge the Inhabitants of the said Ward from all other Taxes levied upon the said Ward , for and toward the Beadles Salery , and to maintain a sufficient Watch according to the ancient custome .